[Coldootside]

So many risk factors, so little definitive cause.Do people not understand that cancer is hundreds of diseases? none of which are induced by a single risk factor. It's just one piece of the puzzle in interplay with genetics.

[ShepherdsDog]

So, with your shallow gene pool you have no worries.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

bootlegga bootlegga:

andyt andyt:

I wish I could enjoy drinking more. I really miss having a cold beer on a hot day - nothing is as refreshing. But I've just lost the taste for it.

I hardly ever drink myself - despite youthful attempts at binge drinking and partying like most kids, I never developed a love for booze of any kind (wine/hard/beer). I'll have a beer if someone offers me one, but I hardly ever buy it on my own.

On a hot day, I prefer a slurpee to a cold beer - although a margarita might suffice if I had the ingredients to make one.

Have a I got a drink for you then. I call it the "Slappy Daiquiri".
You pour rum, triple sec and raspberry schnapps into a blender with ice and orange sherbet and whip that sucker until smooth and frothy. The "slappy" part of the name comes from standing up after having had a couple.
They taste great too. It looks like orange cream, it tastes quit a bit like a creamsicle but brother, it ain't no creamsicle

[PublicAnimalNo9]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Cranberry and orange juice mixed with club soda, ginger ale or 7 UP works well as a cocktail. My grandmother always mixed up a bunch of this for Christmas, as the older kids(10+ years) were only allowed a small glass of wine with the Christmas meal

Yeah, when I was a little there'd be grape juice mixed with ginger ale for us young'uns so we could have "sparkling wine" with our meal at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

[Jabberwalker]

That was Andres Baby Duck you were drinking.

[jj2424]

bootlegga bootlegga:

andyt andyt:

I wish I could enjoy drinking more. I really miss having a cold beer on a hot day - nothing is as refreshing. But I've just lost the taste for it.

I hardly ever drink myself - despite youthful attempts at binge drinking and partying like most kids, I never developed a love for booze of any kind (wine/hard/beer). I'll have a beer if someone offers me one, but I hardly ever buy it on my own.

On a hot day, I prefer a slurpee to a cold beer - although a margarita might suffice if I had the ingredients to make one.

You must have been three sheets to the wind when you met your wife. Is that why you cut back?

[andyt]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

The "slappy" part of the name comes from standing up after having had a couple.

Boozers love to talk about how "powerful" a certain mixed drink is. Alcohol is alcohol. How slappy you get depends on how much you drink. Want to get slappy before you know it? Drink 95% alcohol. It's hard to do because it evaporates so fast, it feels slippery in your mouth. But man, if you're used to 80 proof booze, and try to drink accordingly, you're going to be on the floor in no time.

[Zipperfish]

andyt andyt:

bootlegga bootlegga:

I say everything in moderation...

Sure, but when it's classed as the same hazard as asbestos, you don't breathe in moderate amounts of asbestos, do you?

If it got me drunk or high I would.

[Zipperfish]

jj2424 jj2424:

You must have been three sheets to the wind when you met your wife. Is that why you cut back?

[andyt]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

andyt andyt:

bootlegga bootlegga:

I say everything in moderation...

Sure, but when it's classed as the same hazard as asbestos, you don't breathe in moderate amounts of asbestos, do you?

If it got me drunk or high I would.

Yep, the urge is strong.

[Zipperfish]

andyt andyt:

Yep, the urge is strong.

Funny, I was just discussing this yesterday with colleagues--at the pub of course. The desire for alcohol is a very peculiar thing that does not seem to offer any particular evolutionary advantage. Yet we see it in the animal kingdom.

[andyt]

Not just booze. (although apparently there's a theory we invented agriculture to have a steady supply of grain to make beer). Pot seeds have been found in 30,000 year old sites, mushrooms have been big forever. Basically if a plant got somebody faced and they lived to tell about it, everybody had to do it.

kinda sad, really.

[Zipperfish]

andyt andyt:

Not just booze. (although apparently there's a theory we invented agriculture to have a steady supply of grain to make beer). Pot seeds have been found in 30,000 year old sites, mushrooms have been big forever. Basically if a plant got somebody faced and they lived to tell about it, everybody had to do it.

kinda sad, really.

I don't see anything that sad about it.

[andyt]

What's wrong with reality, man? Chogyam Trungpa called LSD double samsara, ie a distortion of a distorted view of reality. Not really something to aspire to.

[Zipperfish]

andyt andyt:

What's wrong with reality, man? Chogyam Trungpa called LSD double samsara, ie a distortion of a distorted view of reality. Not really something to aspire to.

Reality is for people who can't handle drugs.